When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

Ayn Rand

The Reverend C. L. Dodgson had no life. He passed through the world so lightly that he left no print. He melted so passively into Oxford that he is invisible.

Virginia Woolf

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Louis Nizer

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Andre Gide

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

Chris Rock

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Mary Wesley

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

Mark Twain

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you.

Daniel Quinn

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

Sherry Stringfield

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Plato

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

Sandra Bernhard

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Merton Miller